Welcome to the Revolution
Over 50% of the world's population is under 30 years old
96% of the Millennials have joined a social network
Facebooks tops Google for weekly traffic in the US
1 out of 8 couples married in the US met via social media
Years to Reach 50 million users :
Radio - 38 years
TV - 13 years
Internet - 4 years
Ipod - 3 years
Facebook - added over 200,000,000 users in less than a year
I-pod applications download hit 1 billion in a month
"We dont have a choice on whether we do social media.
The question is how well we do it"
Erik Qualman
If facebook were a country
- China
- India
- Facebook
- United States
- Indonesia
- Brazil
- Pakistan
- Bangladesh
* Yet QQ and renren.com dominate China
US department of Education study reveal that online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
80% of the companies use social media recruitment 
95% of those use linkedin ... The fastest Growing segment on facebook is 55-65 years old females
Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears have more twitter friends than the entire population of Sweden, Israel, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Panama 
VS 
50% of the mobile internet traffic in the UK is for facebook ... imagine what this means for bad customer experience 
Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passe 
Some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts ... instead they are distributing eReaders,ipads and tablets ... 
Youtube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world While you watch (or read) this 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube
Wiki is a Hawaiian term for Quick
Wikipedia has over 15,000,000 articles
Studies show it's as accurate as encyclopedia Britannica
78% of those articles are non-English
If you were paid 1 $ for every article posted on Wikipedia you would earn 1.712,, 32 $ ... per hour
25% of search results for the world's TOP 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content.
34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
Do you like what they are saying about
your (?) brand? ;)
People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks 'em.
78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
Only 14% trust advertisement
Only 18% if traditional TV campaigns generate ROI
90% of people skip ads via TiVo/DVR
Kindle ebooks outsold paper books on Christmas
24/25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation
60,000,000 status updates happen on facebook daily ..
WE no longer search for news ...
the news find US
the news find US
Source: for more info and relevant citation go to www.socialnomics.net
